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Secrets, Lies, & Crawfish Pies

By: Abby L. Vandiver
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 Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Roble in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build.

Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long since traded her French Creole upbringing for Big Texas attitude. She’s a member in a number of ladies’ auxiliaries and clubs, including being in charge of the Tri-County Annual Crawfish Boil and Music Festival.

Hanging on to the magic of her Louisiana roots, she’s cooked up a love potion or two—if she could only get Romaine to drink it. But her plans are derailed when the Ball Funeral Home, bursting at the seams with dead bodies, has a squatter stiff.

Dead Guy is a problem.

Auntie Zanne can’t abide by a murderer using her funeral home as the dumping grounds for their crimes, and Romaine doesn’t want her newly elected cousin, Sheriff Pogue Folsom, to fail on his first murder case. Together, Romaine and Auntie Zanne set off to solve it.

With a dash of humor, a dollop of Southern charm, and a peek at current social issues in the mix, it’s a fun romp around East Texas to solve a murder mystery of the cozy kind.

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SECRETS, LIES, & CRAWFISH PIES by Abby L. Vandiver A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you’ll probably like them all. African American Cozy Crime Murder Mystery Fiction Witty
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The storyline was good. The automated voice was terrible. Ruined a perfectly good story. Please stop using the automated voice!

The automated voice

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I didn't care for AI narration. Stories are more realistic sounding with human narrator voice intonation. Also aunt was a bit troubling as character.

Good story

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It's a good story but the AI narration is awful. It just reads the book. Boring!!! It takes away from the book. No Accents, voice inflections or anything. This book is good if you can deal with AI narrator. The narrators are supposed to bring the books to life! Audible's decision to use AI is a very bad one!!!....My opinion. AI has nothing on human narrators. I hope Ms. Vandiver has this book narrated again by a human narrator who can bring her book to life the way it deserves.

AI narration sucks!!!

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Voice generated was awful. Didn’t enjoy that at all Like real people’s voices. Came off as unreal

Good story

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HATED THE AUTOMATED READER!!! Feel sorry for the author. The story was the only reason I finished the book. Shame on Audible!

Loved the book!

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The story was good, but the AI narration made it almost impossible to pay attention to the story. All the inflections and emphases were wrong. Ruined the book for me .

Hate virtual voice!

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disliked the AI narration couldn't even keep listening. just went to Kindle. Attempts at authenticity was annoying at best.

terrible AI narration!!!!!

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Couldn’t even finish. I will try the book on Kindle. Voices were cracking. Pronunciation was AWFUL. Cheek was pronounced check. Many other words like that.
Computer generated voice ruined the entire book. I tried to tough it out because I love these kinds of books but the AI voice was awful. I couldn’t even finish it.

Horrid performance I will try reading this book don’t waste your time with audible

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AI was horrible... the book has so much potential, but I couldn't stand listening to the weird pronunciation of words/ names made it had to follow. the narration made is all run together.
please choose a real person to read this. the AI naration ruined a good book!

ai was horrible

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